New Construction & ADUs.
Ground-up work rewards decisions made early. Service size, panel location, conduit runs, and low-voltage pathways cost almost nothing at rough-in and are expensive or impossible to change later. Being dual-licensed means those decisions get made by someone who will personally install them.
We build to the plans and structural drawings prepared by your architect and engineer. Our field crew handles framing, structural work, and finish carpentry. Steve Turcotte self-performs the electrical scope under our own C-10 license — service and panel sizing, distribution, lighting, automation rough-in, and EV charging capacity built in from the start rather than retrofitted.
Site work, concrete, plumbing, HVAC, roofing, stucco, and finish trades are performed by licensed subcontractors, each responsible for their own scope. We manage the building permit, sequence the trades, and schedule inspections. Your contract identifies exactly which scopes are ours.
- Electrical Designed In: Service size, panel capacity, and conduit pathways planned for the house you will own in fifteen years, installed in-house under our own C-10.
- Sequenced Trades: Licensed subcontractors scheduled against the structural and electrical rough-in, with inspections booked at each required hold point.
- Local Building Departments: Regular permit and inspection work with Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, and San Clemente, including projects built inside the coastal zone.
Planning a ground-up build or an ADU?
Feasibility and site assessments are available for residential projects throughout Orange County.
Common Questions
Do you handle permitting?
A: We obtain and manage the building permit and schedule all city inspections through final. Discretionary approvals that come earlier — coastal development permits, variances, design review, HOA approval — are typically secured during design by the owner and architect. We build to those approved plans and their conditions of approval, and we will tell you early which approvals your project is likely to need.
Who performs the trades you don't do in-house?
A: Licensed subcontractors we have worked with for years. Each carries their own license and insurance and is responsible for their own scope and its warranty. We sequence and schedule their work and hold the overall build schedule.
What does dual-licensing actually change on a new home?
A: The electrical design decisions get made at framing instead of after. Service size, panel location, home-run pathways, and conduit for future solar, battery, or EV charging are set while the walls are open, by the person who holds both licenses and will install the work. On most builds that scope is bid out and arrives late, and the house lives with whatever fits.